having an issue lining up letters to create a smooth line.
Using Myriad Pro text. The letters in question are 'n' and 'h' - both lowercase. Also working in CS6.
Hopefully these pictures will explain the issue:
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So my question is: is there a way to align them perfectly? or a is this known to be impossible in illustrator? Is there a workaround?
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What I'm trying to say is; is there an option that is causing this to happen that I may have accidently turned on, or has my copy of Illustrator gone into stupidity mode and I need to reinstall it?
I've attached pictures of what I mean with the settings I'm using and outputs. I hope your collective minds can smack this one in the face. I'm sure I'm doing something ridiculously simple to cause this.
I'm using CS5 Illustrator and my relevant PC hardware is listed below. - Intel i5-2500 3.30Ghz
- nVidia GeForce GTX 560
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